There are times when I'd like to share something with you but my Voice in the Gardensite does not seem the appropriate place, thus, this blog.

There are experiences, thoughts, views... and for anyone lurking/waiting to pounce (as has occurred on several occasions), please do not attempt to turn what I post into a political statement. This is NOT a political site, but IS about occurrences, reality, and personal opinion concerning what I see in the world around me and my family. There are many excellent writers whose works "speak" to me, and I shall include some of them. At times it may be something I think you would enjoy or simply whatever ails you (me).~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

Monday, March 5, 2012

"The government has finally seen through the wind-farm scam – but why did it take them so long?

To the nearest whole number, the percentage of the world’s energy
that comes from wind turbines today is: zero. Despite the regressive
subsidy (pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while improving the wine
cellars of grand estates), despite tearing rural communities apart,
killing jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling forests,
killing bats and eagles, causing industrial accidents, clogging
motorways, polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic and
radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, a ton of which is in the
average turbine — despite all this, the total energy generated each day
by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide.

If wind power was going to work, it would have done so by now. The
people of Britain see this quite clearly, though politicians are often
wilfully deaf. The good news though is that if you look closely, you can
see David Cameron’s government coming to its senses about the whole
fiasco. The biggest investors in offshore wind — Mitsubishi, Gamesa and
Siemens — are starting to worry that the government’s heart is not in
wind energy any more. Vestas, which has plans for a factory in Kent,
wants reassurance from the Prime Minister that there is the political
will to put up turbines before it builds its factory... continue here.